Posted on Oct 16, 2016
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Here's the background. You're a senior E5. Your troops are in formation and you're handing out work for the day. You hand out an assignment to a fresh E2 with less than a year in and only a few months at your command. They blatantly complain and tell you to choose someone else. You calmly tell them they will do this task and they tell you to shove it and give it to someone else. How do you react?
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Capt Al Parker
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Well an Article 15 if Air Force.
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SSG Ron Randell
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Make him an E-1
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SGT Roger Bunton
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Time for some extra duty after hours and possibly a meeting with the first Sgt.
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CPL Thomas Artiaga
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Immediately inform and he's been placed on extra Duty. That he will not only complete his tasks but everybody else is Task as well. He will be confined to his barracks the entire weekend. Talk to the motor sergeant, the mess sergeant and any other platoon that needs help ensure he is kept busy and productive. Conduct a daily inspection of his AO from that day until Monday morning. Give him only one hour personal time, required hygiene time and time to go to Chow. When he's not on some sort of detail PT the living s*** out of him. You must make an example of him immediately.
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Sgt Josh Frates
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Wall to wall counciling.
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SFC David Pope, MBA
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Edited 7 y ago
I was a new SSG in charge of the last convoy to return to our unit location after a 3 week exercise. They left me in charge of clearing the barracks and lining up the last vehicles. It was going to be a long drive back, but half of it was going to be in the city. One of the young newly promoted specialists wanted to drive back with the doors off of the Humvee. I told him to put the doors on while we were in convoy. One of our subordinate units were there collecting their equipment and this soldier is telling me no in front of my peers of equal rank. I locked him up and in a voice heard in a hundred mile circumference let him know who was in charge and what his orders were. I think he may have peed a little. His father who was an SFC at the time complimented me after he had heard about it. When I was assigned to train our subordinate unit on some new systems, they gave me their full attention! That was the last time I ever had to lock up a soldier or yell in the military. I retired seven years later. Although I did rip an E-8 a new one while he was exiting my range with his rifle pointing at the bleachers. I was promoted to SFC a week later and he toasted me that night at the dinning in for doing my job and keeping that range safe and running smooth.
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MSG Brian Wiscott
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Tell the PFC to step to the rear of the formation, assume the front leaning rest position and knock them out until I get tired, the continue with the formation.
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CW4 Russ Hamilton (Ret)
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As a CW4 it's unlikely any PV2 will ever see me in formation. Just kidding... I go sometimes.

Personally, it wouldn't bother me much because my NCOIC would immediately crush their skull more than likely - then our 1SG would yell at them for not being at the position of parade rest while he was speaking to them. If not, I would likely put my cigar out on their forehead - God help them if I spill my coffee.
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CW3 Airdrop Systems Technician
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Sorry, but I am "old School"...I don't believe in safe rooms, time outs or any of that other PC crap. He would be doing corrective action until I got tired. Airborne, All the Way!
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COL Deputy G2
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Standby. Let’s talk about why your an ass. If you have already have done written counseling we are walking to the first sergeant so we can move forward with either article 15 or chapter. you really need to have a talk with this youngster and figure out what’s going on. A little listening goes a long way.
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SSgt Wayne Graff
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I would assign him the most demeaning task I could think of, cleaning the toilets with his bare hands, scrubbing the floor with a toothbrush. Something like that.
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Cpl James Gilchrist
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I’d kick his ass in front of the platoon. But, that is me. A more disciplined Marine NCO would virtually take Pvt Shitbird apart with commanding rhetoric and an overwhelmingly dominant attitude.
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Sgt Greg Puckett
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Promote to E-4 mafia
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SGT Senior Human Resources Nco (S1)
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Crushing his soul my be in order. However, is this a first offense? If it is, a heart to heart in the PSG's office with the platoon sergeant and platoon leader is in order. The Soldier needs to understand insubordination and the consequences, and it needs to be on paper. Make sure the kid knows that it's serious and that the counselling has the magic bullet in it. If it isn't . . . Well, time to start crushing souls. I typically start with summarized and work my way up from there. Most joes get it when their time is taken with out the need to go after pay and rank. If they don't . . . That rank and pay is going with more of their time.
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PO1 Darrell Sanders
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How the hell did he make it that far. If he has been in that long and with that attitude he did not just wake up and decide to be an idiot. I was a Marine, in my experience he would not have made E-2. As a corporal and squad leader, at various times when I got a new guy I checked his background and past performance. He didn't just walk out and report in. If by chance he did just get assigned and I wasn't informed until he was standing there his new fire team leader would meet him first. Usually it was the Fire Team Leaders and myself in a meeting. I told them what I wanted done and they told their team. IF for some reason I had to do this as a squad the minute he opened his mouth he would be standing at attention by himself off to the side while I finished. His new fire team leader would assist in addressing his problem and develop an attitude adjustment procedure. Of course the team leader and myself would be discussing in front of the miscreant whether to have a blanket party, have him run in full gear around the barracks for an hour or two. Probably settle on scrubbing the latrine with a tooth brush after lights out. The only thing the rest of the squad knows is that this young man opened a can of "Ohhh, Shit." Let their imaginations run with it.

If this is his first offense it would be handled differently than if my wonderful Platoon Sgt decided he liked how I instilled leadership and a spirited and effective work ethic in my Marines. A lot of variables involved. Take you pick on how to handle.....
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SN Flex Officer
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Remove them from formation and they can do pushups til formation is over, then a week at KP duty
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1SG Klayton W. Hayes
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Better yet, a brand new E-2 arrived in my unit. I returned from some meetings to find the coffee pot empty. The Operations Sgt was out. I directed The E-2 to make a pot of coffee. I took the time to instruct him on the task. Pvt. informed me his Drill Sergeant told him he did not have to make coffee for anyone. Mistake 1: He did not stand when I entered the room. 2. He did not address me as even Sergeant when he refused. Result and solution: Everyone in the Orderly Room drank the COFFEE I brewed before a fresh pot was made. Pvt. after that day never failed to acknowledge his 1st Sgt or refuse any task issued by a NCO. I never inquired about the conversation The Operations NCO had whith him. I do know my Ops Sgts ass was on fire after he departed my office.
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PV2 Donald Dean
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Drop his whole squad. If he doesn't drop, then drop the whole platoon.
If that doesn't do the trick release the platoon then counsel him on his behavior and let him know that you will put an Article 91 in his file for insubordination.
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SGT(P) Infantryman
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I'd have him report to the orderly room and wait for the 1sgt, CO, and myself and tactfully remind him of UCMJ and then negatively counsel him for insubordination and let him know that if this attitude continues then I'll push for Art 15 and bad conduct discharge
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Sgt William Pilgrim Jr.
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Whoop his ass or make him do bends and thrust till I was tired..
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